Apples galore on a painted surface shown slanted with the apex in the middle showing a bunch tightly wrapped in a transparent blue plastic, and against the backdrop of a painted surface of flowing but delineated colours, and different other images, obscuring space. In this work, Lim Kim Hai, dubbed ‘The Apple King’, uses thin oil techniques of contrasting and complementary colours to simulate ‘weight’ and ‘thickness’. Apples, to him, are symbols of human lives at various times and to relay a cautionary tale, or just something poetic. Lim Kim Hai has won several major awards including the Golden Award in the Salon des Artistes Francais, Paris 1982; Silver Award in the Salon Internationale Du Val D’Or, France 1984; Salon de Mantes La Jolie, France, Rotary Club Award 1986; Prix Henri Lehmann – Peinture from Institut de France, Academy des Beaux 1986; Golden and Public Awards from 52e Salon des Beaux Arts, Enghien-les-Bains, France 1987. He was educated at the Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Beaux Arts, Paris, France (1975-80) and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore (1970-72). After residing in Paris for 17 years, he made a grand return to Malaysia in a solo at the Galeri Maybank in 1992.